Potential Protein Project

I finally have an idea! So one of the proteins I’ve been looking at on the Molecule of the Month site is the tobacco mosaic virus. It was the first virus to be discovered, and it is the cause of disease in tobacco plants. I think it has a really interesting structure. It is composed of a helical RNA strand which encodes 4 proteins. I was thinking of making one of those bead maze toys that you see in doctors’ offices. I could make it out of wire which would be the RNA strand and the beads could be proteins. 

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